I live in Pakistan and I have been following City like a woman for last 3 years literally in attempt to know more about the club and be as knowledgeable as I can be. T
To be honest growing up in Pakistan post 9/11 , have realized how the biggest and most reliable Channels and papers derive opinions of masses on fake or twisted stories and its un imaginable how just the power of opinion is held by few people. It's like we know 90 % of our population wants what everyone else in this world wants, but that 10 % is portrayed as a whole nation. Pakistan lost more soldiers and civilians then any other nation in the world in this war. When a soldier dies regardless he is British, Pakistani, Indian or any other nation there families suffer the same way.
The only reason to mention is what the OP said is a v valid and worrying point in certain ways as well.And this will also have implications on what our owners are trying to achieve. Especially in established markets for a neutral to choose starting supporting City is being tough because of all the fans of these previous big 4 spout out the shit from all these crap news papers. And usually as a neutral or someone outside UK doesn't really know how shit or un reliable these news papers are. So no one cares to investigate and with none or any visible fan bases in African and Asian countries you hardly have people to defend against that bile of shit.
BPL gets shown almost in every country in the world and they all have their own panelist or guests. ESPN Asia has pretty fair ones compared to British channels. But they all run tabloids and news papers heading they all have exclusive programs and those heading derive opinions of masses , they see it as truth not something which is published by a shit ass news paper that has an agenda against us.
I would personally like for city to set up their own media group , at least to correct these fukers, Alot of shit starts of twitter have an official account to shut the fukers up rite there that its blatant lie or something I dont know but definitely it has an impact.
How is really felt it makes such an impact is in last year some game when scholes made a real rough tackle, how the commentator totally put it on the guy getting tackled how he mis judged or something and the game after when Zaba tackled someone the commentator was like thats a horrible tackle which was way better then of Scholes.
Now that observation will make any neutrals judge too players in a totally differed way, where as Scholes tackles look as if a 5 year old mistake which should just be taken blind eye from and our tackles are life threatening.
We have some cracking indviduals in our team not as footballers but as people, better then any other team I can think of with how they conduct them self off the field, But the reason they are not really getting the recognition is because of how we are made to be looked as. Oh and it effects our sales of shirts merchandise etc off course.